Press Release, 13.03.2018

Photo: Badri Gazzati in the centre.

Today, on March 13, Badri Gazzati, an authorised representative of Grigory Yavlinsky campaign, Chairman of the Ossetian branch of Yabloko, and Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper “Osetiya. Svobodny Vzglyad” (Ossetia. A Free View), was attacked by Saslan Bestayev, an authorised representative of Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Zhyrinovsky is a presidential candidate from his parliamentary pro-governmental party LDPR). This happened after the televised debates at the GTRK Alania.

The dispute between the Chair of the Ossetian Yabloko and the authorised representative of LDPR began during the debate. LDPR’s Bestayev began threatening Gazzati. Badri Gazzati called Bastayev “the worthy son of Vladimir Zhirinovsky.” Apparently, this offended Bestayev. After the broadcast, Bestayev unexpectedly attacked Yavlinsky’s representative when the latter was walking to his car, and hit the latter with his fists several times.

Badri Gazzati filed an application with the police. Now the police is examining the application. Badri Gazzati was sent to medical examination, which confirmed the beating.

Chairman of the Ossetian Yabloko also appealed to Mikhail Skokov, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.

Despite everything Badri Gazzati continues to participate in the debates in support of Grigory Yavlinsky.